About the Artwork
The Star, Christmas Night
1939
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
1893-1967
American
Unknown
Watercolor on heavy dark cream paperboard
Image (irregular): 8 5/8 × 12 inches (21.9 × 30.5 cm) Mount (paperboard): 11 3/8 × 14 5/8 inches (28.9 × 37.1 cm)
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Gift of Christine and George Strumbos
2012.130
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Markings
Signed, in black watercolor, lower left: [artist's monogram] | 1939
Inscribed, in blue pen, on mount, lower right: [possibly Rehnn]
Provenance
Christine and George Strumbos
2012-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Charles Ephraim Burchfield, The Star, Christmas Night, 1939, watercolor on heavy dark cream paperboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Christine and George Strumbos, 2012.130.
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